Word: niblick
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...clubhouse canteen," thereby ensuring a rapt and docile audience. Gloom is kept down to the essential minimum and balanced by modest quantities of sex and violence, as in The Salvation of George Mackintosh, in which the beautiful Celia attempts to murder him (George) with, of all things, her niblick. (He had. after all, addressed her while she was addressing her ball...
...tour these days, it seems to be a prerequisite for success. Witness Jack Nicklaus, Julius Boros and Lee Trevino, who have together won five tournaments this year and a combined total of $391,802. It is enough to make Minnesota Fats want to trade in his cue for a niblick...
...mothers anyway, and Catherine's mother, the former Simone Thion de la Chaume, is a golfer-the winner of six French amateur titles. Last week, at the Cascades Golf Club in Hot Springs, Va., chunky Catherine Lacoste proved that she is a pretty fair chip off the old niblick. Firing rounds of 71, 70, 74 and 79, she whipped a field of 56 pros to become the youngest player, the first amateur and the first foreigner ever to win the U.S. Women's Open...
...ways of hitting the ball." A teaching pro since he was 18, Hahn took a fling at the P.G.A. tournament circuit after World War II, quit after two years ("I wasn't making any money"), and went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously, one with a hook, the other with a slice. Aha! thought Hahn, and hit the road as a trick-shot artist...
Fate whacks at Wodehouse characters like a duffer with a No. 7 iron. There is the problem of Agnes Flack, when a Pekingese picks up her ball on the 18th green and carries it into the clubhouse-should she blast out with a niblick? And there is the predicament of Bingo Little, when his child's nurse, a motherly woman, trails him to an assignation to give him his woolly muffler...